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28th September 1928: Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming

28th September 2019
Tagged as: Discovery, Disease, Drugs, Health, Medicine, Science

On the 28^th September 1928, the bacteriologist Alexander Fleming laid for the foundation for a revolution in modern medicine when he discovered the world’s first antibiotic.

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22nd July 1992: Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury La Catedral prison

22nd July 2019
Tagged as: cocaine, Columbia, Drugs, Escape, Pablo Escobar, Prison, Smuggling, USA

Referred to mockingly as ‘Hotel Escobar’, the prison was staffed by guards chosen by the drugs lord himself.

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28th September 1928: Penicillin discovered by Alexander Fleming

22nd July 1992: Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury La Catedral prison

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23rd June 1894: Establishment of the International Olympic Committee

14th May 1955: The establishment of the Warsaw Pact

10th August 1793: The Louvre museum in Paris opens to the public for the first time

6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence

14th August 1980: Lech Wałęsa leads strike in Gdańsk shipyard

13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

11th August 1929: Babe Ruth becomes the first Major League Baseball player to hit 500 home runs

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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